To My Friends at Mylot
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
United States
December 10, 2006 9:43am CST
Hello to all! Hope your day, evening or whatever time of day it is for you is going well. I am gathering up my candy recipes so I can make a list of what I will need to get at the grocery store today. This weekend is our family gathering. The gifts I am making for my family will be homemade candy, cookies and breads. I also make a family calendar that posts all of our birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
As I go through the recipe files I am posting the candy recipes that I will be making this week. I hope you have a chance to check them out and print them out for your own use.
For many candy making is something that many have never done. I started making candy in my youth. It is something that I love to do. Using a candy thermometer is key to successful candy making. If you have never made homemade candy before, now is the time to do it. Check out the recipes and give one of them a try. Let me know what you made and how it came out.
Huggers! : )
39 responses
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Dec 06
Good luck. I know you can do it. Let me know how it turns out.
@auburndreams (838)
• United States
11 Dec 06
Hopefully they will work the site bugs out tomorrow so we can all see the missing front page.
I have made some candy in my life including fudge, melt and pour types of candies made in molds, etc. But lately I'm trying to cut way down on my sweets before I get some major health problems. And I'd rather give up candy than resort to artificial sweeteners. I may have to get stevia a try though.
Your family is lucky to have you.
@caramello (4377)
• Australia
10 Dec 06
Good morning ElusiveButterfly, enjoy your day and happy cooking! looking forward to try some of your recipes.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
10 Dec 06
Hey there, how are you? Let me know how they turn out!
@creativedreamweaver (7297)
• United States
11 Dec 06
Hey there Elusive. I love this post, but I can't see the first page. It didn't come up at all. I wonder if myLot is still having problems with posting links. I would really love to see some of the recipes. When I get back from vacation, the 17th, I will start making mine. I hope your day is going lovely and that you are getting everything done. Oh, by the way, should I send my address for some of your homemade goodies, lol.
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@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Dec 06
you are a hoot! Have a great time on your vacation!
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
29 Apr 07
I have never made penuche. One of my fondest childhood memories were having my mother's penuche. One day we went to my aunt's house to visit, she had just made penuche. She gave a hollar that it was ready and called us all to the kitchen for a bite. I ran out and asked her where the spoons were. She looked at me with a puzzled look on her face and asked why I would need a spoon. I replied that it was how we ate my mother's penuche. She laughed so loudly and called to my mother. Apparently my mother hadn't been making it the right way. After that day, my mother never made penuche again.
@pinklilly (3443)
• Australia
11 Dec 06
Hello ElusiveButterfly
I've never made Candy but does sound fun to do your self and messy too perhaps :)
Good on you and Thank you
@ElusiveButterfly (45940)
• United States
11 Dec 06
It isn't messy at all. It is a lot of fun. I love it when I give my candies to people and they taste it. The reaction on their faces is best when they realize that I have made it!
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
11 Dec 06
I would lke to try some candy reciepes
I want to copy them too. thank you!
@kids91911 (4363)
• United States
12 Dec 06
I make fudge a lot in december. Half of it always ends up in my belly but otherwise a lot of people love it when they get some.
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@scorpius (1792)
• India
11 Dec 06
hi there,
well i am just about to log off and go home for lunch.do you have any good recipes for cake.i am planning to try it out tomorrow or something like that.this would be my first time so hope that my baking goes off well.am planning an vannila flavor cale for tomorrow.do you have any good recipes for it?
if do do tell me,
thank you and have a nice day!
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@margieanneart (26423)
• United States
11 Dec 06
It is so sweet of you to share your candy receipes. Will give it a try, never made candy. Thank you.
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@Lydia1901 (16351)
• United States
11 Dec 06
I don't make candies, I just buy them. It's less work that way.
@cranehuang (682)
• China
11 Dec 06
hello,my friend.how is everything going?as far as i know you can make candy by yourself .wa ,what a wise boy or girl ,i have no recipes ,so i don't know how to make the candy.and i hope you can make the candy succussfully and if possible send us the candy made by yourslef.i will aways here supporting you.
huging
@DragonLover (69)
• United States
11 Dec 06
Let me first say I just love your "fairy" icon - she is absolutely adorable!! :)
Where are you posting your candy recipes?? Blessings and good will to you and yours and thank you for sharing!
@catwoman1459 (2971)
• United States
11 Dec 06
what a nice idea. i love making home made stuff for Christmas. every year i make new ornaments for the tree and bake a lot of cookies. I have my kids help me with all of it. it is so much fun.
@Juliephine (286)
• United States
11 Dec 06
I love making home made goodies for my friends and family. It's fun to give to strangers too. There's just something really cool about a stranger getting that glimmer of hope in their eye when they see a perfect stranger can bless them with a gift. I think it has a tendency to renew their faith in the human race. I love to make peanut clusters in particular.
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@SanDslnrs (268)
• United States
11 Dec 06
Hello! I don't see any of the recipes you posted. I made candy years ago, but I don't know if I would remember how to make it now. I wanted to make a calendar for my family, but I can't seem to find the right program to make it in. Which program are you using and is your calendar 1 page or 12? I'm sure your family looks forward to your goodies. Let me know when you post the recipes and I will definitely try one out. Have a wonderful Christmas!
@angel_manders (912)
• Canada
11 Dec 06
wow i am going to have to try some of those recipes but i just have a few questions is it hard to do and where do you get a candy thermometer
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